Last Thursday, the Canadian government survived a crucial vote on its capacity to stay in office. But the government of the Prime Minister Martin has done it by two ways. First, the Prime Minister and its Ministers has multiplied announces of spending to buy votes in sensible regions of Canada, in average 1 billion a day for 3 weeks! And after, they buyed the votes of some MPs by giving them important ministerial responsibilities. From that, we can learn that the party in office hasn't learned from the previous corruption episode. Moreover, the chief of Quebec's governmental MPs has asked to the Quebec's federalists, without any shyness, to forget their corrupted manoeuvers to save Canada!

From an economic point of view, this new episode confirm a generally agreed view among economists: there is a political market and politicians are looking to maximise their chances to stay in office, not their citizens welfare. If there was no political market, why the governement would have spent so much in every sensible Canadian region??

On the other hand, the Tory MP who has tranfered to the Liberals was a candidate in an Ontarian county, where the Tories are loosing votes incredibly fast! So she maximised her chance to stay in office by changing her alleagence... So does the governement by gaining time to spend more accross Canada...

So, to those who always ask to which party they should vote, I answer that they're all the same: they will choose their policies in order to concentrate benefits and diffuse costs to maximise their chance to stay in power... and confronted to a failure, they will try to buy your vote! However, to my friends who come from non democratic countries and with whom I argued about our different political models... I would paraphrase Winston Churchill: "Democracy is a bad system... but it remains the less bad system."